[Test-Equipment] Patent Searching

[Ron Youvan]

Brooke Clarke wrote:

> Once you find a patent then you've got a number of possible searches, for example:
> Search Google for various combinations of the inventor name and city where he lives.
> Search for the title (there are thousands of patents with the exact same title).
> Search at USPTO for the class/sub class number or a concatenation of it.

> Check the hardware, manuals, ads, etc. to see if there's a patent number or date.
> Given a date and a top class number you can easily find the patent.
> http://www.prc68.com/I/Learning.shtml#Patents

   Better to take your number to:  pat2pdf.org   http://www.pat2pdf.org/
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    Ron  KA4INM - Did you know ...
                  ... that no-one ever reads these things?